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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

LEGO: MOVIE (Cast News)

LEGO: MOVIE

Elizabeth Banks

Oscar winner Morgan Freeman, who played Lucius Fox in
Nolan's Batman trilogy, will once again cross paths with the Caped Crusader
onscreen ... this time in LEGO form.

Deadline reports that both Freeman and The Hunger Games'
Elizabeth Banks have been added to the voice cast of Warners' animated LEGO
Movie. They join Chris Pratt and Will Arnett, who play the movie's protagonist
and a LEGO version of Batman, respectively.

No word on Banks' role, but Freeman's character is said to
be named "Vitruvius," which also just so happens to be the name of an
ancient Roman author of a multi-volume work on architecture.

21 Jump Street’s Phil Lord and Chris Miller will direct the
movie.

Lord recently described the film as the story of "a
young man who doesn't have a creative bone in his body and [he] has to always
build things from the instructions. ... He's an 'instructions worker.'

Morgan Freeman

In the LEGO city,
they build buildings, and it turns out in this universe it's illegal to build
apart from the instructions. So what he finds out is that he's actually [a]
descendant from these like super creative Jedi-type people who are called
'Master Builders' and he has been charged with saving the universe from being
frozen together by an evil bad guy, so over the course of the movie he has to
unlearn all of that lame-o, uncreative stuff and learn how to build without all
of the instructions in order to save the universe."